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  1. Re:web development for handhelds on T-Mobile Sidekick Reviewed · · Score: 2

    Palm offers a free-as-in-beer emulator. It's even skinnable, and the hardware configuration (memory, etc) can be changed. Palm licensees customize it to support their devices. I believe Handspring has; I know Sony does.

  2. Re:Something to note... on T-Mobile Sidekick Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny
    After 1 year, the 'unlimited internet' becomes something like $30 for 15MB a month
    Ah, the heroin marketing model.
  3. How Fitting... on That Link Is Illegal · · Score: 2

    I initially misread the title as "That Think is Illegal".

  4. Gotta love the Fine Print on Are You Ogling Google News? · · Score: 2
    You've got to admire the playfulness of a company that uses this disclaimer at the bottom of the page:
    This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.
    No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page.
  5. Not Slashworthy... on Janis Ian on Life in the Music Business · · Score: 5, Interesting
    You haven't heard of them because the story I submitted was rejected. (Whine, Whine). Jimmy Buffett's label is going after artists who want more control. His hook is a $5/cd royalty rate, rather than $1-2/cd. The catch is that the label doesn't spend anything on promotion. It works for him - he's sold a million copies of his last two albums. From the article:
    Mailboat's roster is growing and includes a diverse array of acts from the heavy-metal band Poison to pop-blues artist Boz Scaggs and country-rocker Maria McKee (of Lone Justice fame). Poison has already released music on Mailboat (which sells direct to retail), and the latter two acts will release their first Mailboat discs soon.
  6. AFTI F/111 Mission Adaptive Wing on Air Force to Test Aeroelastic Wings · · Score: 2

    This is actually follow-on work to a program run out of Wright-Patterson called Advanced Fighter Technology Integration F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing. (Not to be confused with Advanced Fighter Technology Integration F-16, which I worked on...) Here are some photos and a good synopsis of the program. This link covers the final round of flight testing.

  7. Re:Sun vs. WalMart on Sun To Sell Linux PCs · · Score: 2

    Corporate credibility.
    If it costs a thousand dollars to make a sale, you sell 20-50 boxes per sale. For smaller orders, you have channel resellers and offer individuals self-service at the SunStore website.
    Sun is not looking to compete with Walmart or Gateway. They want to displace IBM, H-paq and Dell in schools and corporations.

  8. Not a troll, but on Internet Vigilante Justice, SPAM, and Copyrights · · Score: 2
    Sheesh! When you configure your relay ACL, you use *IP ranges*, not domains (an awful lot of spammers forge all the headers in the messages they throw out).
    Forgive my ignorance*, but the article mentioned that he often checks email from hotels or foreign countries. Seems to me he's either using an IP address from the foreign point, or from an ISP with global reach. Either one would proclude using IP addresses in the ACL. So my question is, what's the best way to authenticate?
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    * a phrase used on Slashdot about as often as "Why do all those Supermodels keep throwing themselves at me?"
  9. Re:Interesting point about Christianity on Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... · · Score: 2

    Of course, in Catholic doctrine, there is no literal fire-and-brimstone. Hell is the absence of God. So maybe you're already there!

  10. It had to be said on Pro-Active Furniture Assembly · · Score: 2

    Wow! Imagine a Sauder cluster of these!

  11. Ask your boss on Do Long Work Hours Affect Code Quality? · · Score: 2

    whether long hours are so important to the company that they'll pay extra for them.
    You'll find out pretty quick whether they're squeezing resources to be "competitive" or setting unrealistic schedules out of incompetence.

  12. Retro Sci Fi on Negative Refractivity for Optical Computing · · Score: 2

    plasmonic nanomaterials
    Heck, that even sounds cool.

  13. Re:False? on Australia Oppresses Jedi · · Score: 2

    ... and some bad news about Daddy.

  14. Re:False? on Australia Oppresses Jedi · · Score: 2

    An artificial hand, and a superficial Han.

  15. Re:heh on Why are Businesses Willing to Spend More for Software? · · Score: 2

    There's also the fear that a supplier will lowball the bid, then jack up the price by asking for more everytime a spec or schedule is changed. Part of the fault lies with the buyer. The request for proposals should spell out exactly what is expected so the bidder doesn't have to pad the bid.

  16. Re:A Natural Choice... on Police Database Lists 'Future Criminals' · · Score: 2

    There's still a weighty moral question:
    Do we add politicians to the database when they're elected, or just apply a pre-emptive jail sentence when they declare their candidacy?

  17. Re:I Have a question on The Linux Kernel and Software Patents · · Score: 2

    IANAL either, but a contract can be found to be unenforceable if it is against public policy. On the downside, you'd still have to go to court to prove that enforcement would be contrary to the public good.

  18. LyME on Scientifically Oriented PDAs? · · Score: 2
    If you do decide on Palm OS based PDA, you have to look into Lyme, the lightweight math engine. It's a free as in beer matlab compatible package. It's well worth the 1 Mb it requires. From the homepage:
    It implements more than 310 native commands, functions and operators, mostly compatible with Matlab, and 70 functions written in LME. It requires Palm OS 3.1 or higher and at least 1 MBytes of free memory.
  19. Don't Panic! on Advice on Income Taxes for the "Virtual Office" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You have nothing to worry about. I live in Cincinnati. Mark Twain(!) noted that if the world were going to end, he'd want to be in Cincinnati, since everything arrived there 10 years later. So you've got 10 years before the taxman knows you're here.
    Better yet, a newspaper columnist noted that Cincinnati was once the very model of 19th Century German Liberalism - and still is! Heck, they didn't even HAVE income taxes in the 1800's!

  20. Re:Clearly a reprint of AMD Marketing material on AMD Opteron "Hammer" Preview · · Score: 2
    AMD's 64-bit processors extend their long, rich history of semiconductor solutions based on customer-centric innovations
    Emphasis mine. Looks like they've gone and changed it now. Must be readers of slashdot.

    If they really wanted to file off the serial numbers, they should remove at least half the adjectives, and all the buzzwords: AMD's 64-bit processors extend their long history of semiconductor products.
  21. Isn't that backward? on Crypto Leash for Laptops? · · Score: 4, Informative
    My first thought reading the description was, "Wouldn't it be better to encrypt everything, and only DECRYPT when the user is in range?" Fortunately I read the article before posting (that'll get me modded down...)
    To speed up the encryption process, most of the files is already encrypted and only a cached portion is automatically decrypted when the user is in range. This means it takes around six seconds to encrypt and decrypt data.
  22. Re:What Bill Joy thinks about open source licensin on Sun Offers To Relax OpenOffice.org License · · Score: 2

    Because a very large sale to AT&T was contingent on it? At the same time they announced they planned to switch they announced AT&T had signed a partnership agreement and select Sun as a preferred provider.

  23. Re:Windows Media Player?? on The Day The Music Died: Windows Media and DRM · · Score: 2

    Does anyone else wonder what we're being "Personally Protected" from?
    Calling "Corporate Protection" "Personal Protection" is double-plus ungood.

  24. Re:We'll eat your lunch. on Is Today's IT an Undervalued Asset? · · Score: 2

    Puhleaze. GE is a "web" business. Yeah, the websites suck. Some of them approach MS on the Lovelace scale. But we're saving big, big bucks by transforming ourselves into an e-business. Want to scoff? Fine. We're laughing all the way to the bank. Invest $40 million, get $69 Million in savings the first year. What could your business do if it could spend 18% less on purchases?

  25. Re:Yesterday on The Future of Real-Time Graphics · · Score: 1
    Step 1: Fully computer generated GOLF tournament. This may have already happened, and the public would be none the wiser.
    Who would care?